Accountability, Transparency, Participation, and Inclusion: A New Development Consensus?
Four key principles—accountability, transparency, participation, and inclusion—have in recent years become nearly universal features of the policy statements and programs of international development organizations. Yet this apparently widespread new consensus … Continue reading
The city collaborative – how can a city think better?
Geoff Mulgan – Lots of activity is underway on smart cities and data, but surprisingly little on the more fundamental question of how a city can think better about its … Continue reading
The Next Stage of Financial Inclusion
The nonprofit community cleared a path for private-sector institutions to provide financial services to the poor on a for-profit basis. This achievement has created a conundrum: What is the next … Continue reading
The violence of neoliberalism
As austerity measures intensify in the wake of the most recent global financial crisis, it is becoming ever more clear that neoliberalization exhibits a distinct relational connection with violence. This … Continue reading
Open Data – What Now? 7 Ideas for Your City
Originally posted on Places.:
by Valentin Schipfer Everbody talks about smart cities while nobody really knows what hides behind it. Is it about open data and communication technologies or about…
Aid and tax in Ethiopia: is there a crowding out effect?
Based on the Ethiopian case and on other available evidence, the argument of a crowding out effect to justify lower aid levels seems misplaced. Instead aid can be beneficial to … Continue reading
Understanding Latin America’s Financial Inclusion Gap
This paper analyzes Latin America’s Financial Inclusion Gap, the difference between the average financial inclusion for Latin America and the corresponding average for a set of comparator countries. At the … Continue reading
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice
The standard approach to policy-making and advice in economics implicitly or explicitly ignores politics and political economy, and maintains that if possible, any market failure should be rapidly removed. This … Continue reading
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